If pleasurable pain can be said to be a critical political factor, then recent developments in Malaysia is to be welcomed.

Democracy might be 'haram', but Islamist vigilantes are using it to their strategic advantage.

Who's winning, and why. Taking a look at some early polling.

Indonesia's bizarre system for apportioning the votes of expats leads to some unusual campaign strategies.

Conspiracy theories are the courier of political change.

Historians of the future may remember the latest round of political unrest in Thailand as the twilight of the ‘network monarchy’.

Ross Tapsell lays out what Indonesia's 2014 elections are all about.

No, he’s not the Messiah, but a bit of reformist populism was just what Indonesia needed in 2014

Daulat and kedaulatan each has its place, and each is to be honoured in its own place, and not to be inserted into that of the other.

Malaysia and Singapore in action at the Association of Asian Studies Conference.

Akanat Promphan's extraordinary academic record reflects the deep status insecurity that drives the yellow side in Thai politics

Telling the story of Indonesia's election year, New Mandala style.

Is there something more to the position of the traditional Malay ruler than his modern constitutional position?

Elections are the means for greater democratisation in Malaysia, yet it is leading to greater polarisation.

Clive Kessler presents his original analysis of daulat, kedaulatan, sovereignty and modern constitutionalism in Malaysia.

Asia Pacific Week 2014 will explore the theme of GlobaliseAsian from 23 June – 27 June 2014 at the ANU. Applications open on 10 March 2014.

Insurgencies in southern Thailand complicates Malaysia-Thai relations.

Rosalie Metro brings a critical perspective to the fragility of Burmese education materials in an analysis that has major policy implications

Clive Kessler revisits the origins of 'daulat' and 'devaraja' and how Malaysia's 'new royalists" are re-imposing these concepts.

Gennie Gebhart reflects on the Lao government's ban on The Rocket.

Malaysia and Singapore's ‘special relations’ are important but can never be taken for granted advises Bilveer Singh.

Suthep’s invocation of “khon dii” to correct the excesses of the current system of Thai government has a long history in the Kingdom of Siam and in other Tai cultures.

Malaysia's “new royalist” theorists reinvents "derhaka" in an attempt to rewrite the Malaysian constitution.

Murray Hunter explores the development benefits of mud houses.